Skills Assessment Challenge: Pitching
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Get your Chipping Rings here. Are you ready to move into wedge and iron play? You'll know you're ready as soon as you can pass this simple pitching test.
Once you're ready to take your skills assessment test for the pitching program, what you're going to do is you're going to set up two sets or two chipping rings.
The first one is going to be your landing target.
This one is three feet wide, so three foot diameter, and this is ten yards away from where you're chipping.
The second one is a six foot ring, which gives you a three foot putt on any side, and this one is ten yards away from the first ring.
So in total, I'm hitting a 20 yard shot.
You'll also notice that my chipping ring on the second one biases to be a little bit longer.
I actually want the ball to run past the hole because if it doesn't get past the hole, it never had a chance to go in, and I'm absolutely trying to make these as many as I can.
So this gives me a 20 yard shot from back there to here, my landing area.
It's a two-tiered green, so it's going to run downhill.
There's also quite a bit of break in mine.
You don't have to have this set up exactly ten yards past the first chipping ring.
I do want the first chipping ring to be ten yards away from where you're starting, but the second one, you know, depending on the speed of your green and, you know, if you're going uphill or downhill, that's going to dictate whether or not you're maybe five, six yards away from the second chipping ring or ten like I am in this case.
But this is what you need to set up to see if you're ready to move on to wedge play.
So this is how I want you to do this drill.
I'm actually doing it right now, a set of five balls, hitting it in each circle.
So the only way I score a point is if I hit it in the first circle, my landing area, and it stays in the second circle as it rolls out.
So my aim is to get three out of five consistently.
So if you do this ten times, then you're going to need to hit three out of five on average in both circles.
And once you can do that, then you know that you're ready for that next step and being able to apply this to your full swing.
There, I think we've got five out of five.
Stay in there.
Oh, you turkey.
Four out of five.
So, Your aim is to consistently hit both chipping circles three out of five times from ten yards and then rolling out to 15 or 20 yards.
Again, depends on your green speed.
And you see that my chipping greens are very offset.
I'm aimed actually about seven feet left of the hole, maybe eight feet, because I've got a very slippery downhill left to right shot.
You do not need to set it up to be this difficult.
I really just set it up straight to set up your chipping rings one right after the other.
You don't have to have them offset like this.
It's much, much more difficult.
But what you'll start to find is that you'll start to pay attention to how you're starting to control the ball flight.
Because you won't be able to hit both circles if you don't.
If you're flipping and scooping and shutting the face down and pronating and losing that GDP position, you'll find that the ball is going to go left.
It's going to go right.
It's going to go high.
It's going to go low.
And the only way that you're going to get consistent.
To be able to hit four or five out of four, or five out of five is to be able to hit the ball the same way every single time.
And that's all in what you've learned in the starting line drill and the compression drill drill to learn how to control that club face.
So once you can consistently hit your both your first ring and second ring three out of five times, then you're ready to move on to wedge play and start learning how to really hit great shots.
Ryan
Kendall
Chuck
Kendall